Description
A masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it.
Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond’s Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a necessary toolkit for today’s activists in the era of Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. Julian Bond sought to dismantle the perception of the civil rights movement as a peaceful and respectable protest that quickly garnered widespread support. Through his lectures, Bond detailed the ground-shaking disruption the movement caused, its immense unpopularity at the time, and the bravery of activists (some very young) who chose to disturb order to pursue justice.
Beginning with the movement’s origins in the early twentieth century, Bond tackles key events such as the Montgomery bus boycott, the Little Rock Nine, Freedom Rides, sit-ins, Mississippi voter registration, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act, Freedom Summer, and Selma. He explains the youth activism, community ties, and strategizing required to build strenuous and successful movements. With these firsthand accounts of the civil rights movement and original photos from Danny Lyon, Julian Bond’s Time to Teach makes history come alive.
Table of Contents
Foreword—by Pam Horowitz
Introduction: What Julian Bond Taught Me—by Jeanne Theoharis
Introduction to the Course—by Julian Bond
ONE
White Supremacy and the Founding of the NAACP
TWO
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
THREE
World War II
FOUR
President Truman and the road to Brown
FIVE
Brown v. Board of Education
SIX
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
SEVEN
The 1956 Presidential Election and the 1957 Civil Rights Act
EIGHT
Little Rock, 1957
NINE
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
TEN
The Sit-Ins and the Founding of SNCC
ELEVEN
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
TWELVE
The Freedom Rides
THIRTEEN
Kennedy and Civil Rights, 1961
FOURTEEN
Albany, Georgia, 1961
FIFTEEN
Mississippi Voter Registration
SIXTEEN
Birmingham
SEVENTEEN
Mississippi, Medgar Evers, and the Civil Rights Bill
EIGHTEEN
The March on Washington
NINETEEN
The Civil Rights Act
TWENTY
Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
TWENTY-ONE
Selma, Alabama, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act
TWENTY-TWO
Vietnam, Black Power, and the Assassination of Martin Luther King
Afterword: We Are in Need of Shaking—by Vann R. Newkirk II
Acknowledgments
Annotated Bibliography—by Julian Bond
Recommended Readings
Notes
Index
